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		<title>An interview with Kurt Akeley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interview done in February 2009
Kurt Akeley is currently a principal researcher at Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley. He has played a significant role in the history of computing several times; perhaps his greatest claim to fame is his work on the specification of the OpenGL graphics system, done while working at Silicon Graphics; OpenGL is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.budiu.info/blog/2009/12/28/an-interview-with-kurt-akeley/</link>
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		<title>A Planetary Operating System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Put side to side a laptop and a mainframe from 40 years ago and you will be amazed by the astonishing evolution.&#160; Not only are hardware resources many orders of magnitude larger, but also the software is immensely more powerful and sophisticated.&#160; Operating systems appeared in the &#8216;60, for managing mainframe computers.&#160; They handled tasks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.budiu.info/blog/2008/01/20/a-planetary-operating-system/</link>
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		<title>The plan behind Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Updated: fixed a broken link.
I read a very interesting business book about how great companies are built.&#xA0; (I am not the only one, the cover boasts &#34;more than 1 million sold.&#34;)&#xA0; The book is &#34;Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies.&#34;&#xA0; I am providing the Amazon link, but you can also find a brief [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.budiu.info/blog/2007/09/30/the-plan-behind-google/</link>
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		<title>Research failures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[R. W. Johnson Jr., the founder of Johnson and Johnson liked to say frequently about his company: &#8220;Failure is our most important product.&#8221; He meant that J&#38;J learned how to create useful products by attempting to create many unsuccessful ones as well.
There is no way to predict the outcome of research: that is what makes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.budiu.info/blog/2007/08/13/research-failures/</link>
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		<title>More on Presentation Mistakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More on Presentation Mistakes
A few years ago I have given a very short talk about giving effective talks; I still think that was a good summary, so I am providing the link above, to the PowerPoint slides.
BTW, I love PowerPoint.  I think that it is a great tool, which can be extremely effective when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.budiu.info/blog/2007/08/05/more-on-presentation-mistakes/</link>
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		<title>Some Common Job Interview Mistakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You have worked hard to earn a Ph.D., and now you are looking for a job, either in an academic position (in a university), or in an industrial research lab, or perhaps in some other place where you have to use your recently earned qualifications.  For this transition you have to go through a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.budiu.info/blog/2007/07/22/some-common-job-interview-mistakes/</link>
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		<title>Computing Research and Monopolies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I would like to point out an interesting correlation between high quality research labs and monopolies:

AT&#38;T had a monopoly on long distance telephone service for most of the 20th century in the United States.  In 1925 AT&#38;T has created Bell Labs, one of the most famous research laboratories in history, the birthplace of transistors, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.budiu.info/blog/2007/07/08/computing-research-and-monopolies/</link>
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		<title>Academics Love Themselves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The higher (i.e., university) education in the United States is really good.  In fact, it is so good that it is a significant &#8220;export&#8221; of the United States.  Here is some data from an Oct 2006 Congressional Report:
In FY2005, the Department of State issued 565,790 [student] visas, making up 10.5% of all nonimmigrant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.budiu.info/blog/2007/06/23/academics-love-themselves/</link>
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		<title>Research in Academia vs. Industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The meaning given to the word [computer-related] &#8220;research&#8221; is not the same in universities (i.e. academia) and in industrial research labs. (Research has yet other meanings, that I won&#8217;t touch, for example, &#8220;market research.&#8221;)  The fact that &#8220;research&#8221; has two meanings is quite subtle, because these two meanings do overlap substantially.
The duality of meanings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.budiu.info/blog/2007/06/15/research-in-academia-vs-industry/</link>
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		<title>An interview with Leslie Lamport</title>
		<description><![CDATA[



Leslie Lamport in his office, May 2007


Leslie Lamport is a legendary figure of computing.  While he is probably most well-known because of the open-source typesetting LaTeX macro package and book, arguably his most important contributions are in the domain of distributed systems; this is also the subject of this interview.
This interview was conducted in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.budiu.info/blog/2007/05/03/an-interview-with-leslie-lamport/</link>
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